The National Book Critics Circle Awards announced its 2021 finalists in six categories, with Merve Emre winning the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and Percival Everett receiving the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. The winners will be announced on March 17. The rest of the finalists:
Fiction
Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus (NYRB)
Rachel Cusk, Second Place (FSG)
Sarah Hall, Burntcoat (Custom House)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois (Harper)
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Doubleday)
Nonfiction
Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain (Doubleday)
Joshua Prager, The Family Roe (Norton)
Sam Quinones, The Least of Us (Bloomsbury)
Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed (Little, Brown)
Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses (Viking)
John Leonard Prize
Ashley C. Ford, Somebody’s Daughter (Flatiron Books)
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello (Henry Holt)
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby (One World)
Larissa Pham, Pop Song (Catapult)
Devon Walker-Figueroa, Philomath (Milkweed Editions)
Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties (Ecco)
Autobiography
Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America (Random House)
Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar (Little, Brown)
Rodrigo Garcia, A Farewell To Gabo And Mercedes (HarperVia)
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost In the Throat (Biblioasis)
Albert Samaha, Concepcion (Riverhead)
Biography
Susan Bernofsky, Clairvoyant of the Small (Yale University Press)
Keisha N. Blain, Until I Am Free (Beacon Press)
Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days (Little, Brown)
Mark Harris, Mike Nichols (Penguin Press)
Alexander Nemerov, Fierce Poise (Penguin Press)
Criticism
Melissa Febos, Girlhood (Bloomsbury)
Jenny Diski, Why Didn’t You Do What You Were Told? (Bloomsbury)
Jesse McCarthy, Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? (Liveright)
Mark McGurl, Everything and Less (Verso)
Amia Srinivasan, The Right To Sex (FSG)
Poetry
B.K. Fischer, Ceive (BOA)
Donika Kelly, The Renunciations (Graywolf)
Rajiv Mohabir, Cutlish (Four Way)
Cheswayo Mphanza, The Rhinehart Frames (Univ. of Nebraska)
Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets (Graywolf)
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